Fall

Wet harvesting cranberries.
For wet harvesting, machines like the one at the left drive through the flooded beds. Water reels on the front of the machines knock the berries loose off the vines.

This photo shows a close-up view of the water reels knocking the berries off the vines.

Once the berries are floating in the water, they are corralled to one end of the bed. Then they are pushed up onto a conveyor belt, where they are loaded onto trucks. The berries are then taken to a processing facility. All berries that are wet harvested go into processed products like cranberry juice or sauce.

Dry picking fresh cranberries. This process mimics the early method of harvesting cranberries with hand rakes. The teeth at the front of the machine comb the vines and scoop the berries on to the elevator, which transports the berries into the boxes at the back of the machine. The boxes are then taken to a warehouse where they are hand-sorted and packed into individual containers. There are many different kinds of fresh cranberry pickers, and some are designed so that the bed can be partially flooded with water to make it easier to drive the picker through the thick cranberry vines.


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